Reel.



Patented Sept. 2, I902.

I. J. SHAW.

B E E L (Application filed May 24, 1902,)

(No Model.)

- WITNESSES:

Mora ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES SHAW, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHAW &

COOKER MACHINE COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW J ERSEY, A CORPO- RATION OF NEWJERSEY.

REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 708,263, datedSeptember 2, 1902.

Application filed May 24,1902. Serial No. 108,8 l3. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residingin Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New J ersoy, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Reels; andI do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, whichform a part of this specification.

This invention relates to the construction of reels forreeling-machines; and it has for its object to provide a simple,inexpensive, and durable expedient for securing that blade of the reelwhich is arranged to collapse or move toward the axis of the reel (byvirtue of its spokes or carrying-arms forming linklike connections withthe hub portion of the reel) in its extended position while the reel isbeing used.

My invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein corresponding letters of reference indicate likeparts, and wherein Figure 1 is a plan viewof a reel provided with myimprovement. Fig. Zispartial end view of the reel with the shaft insection. Fig. 3 is a sectional View taken on the line w a: in Fig. 1 andlooking toward the left in said figure, and Figs. 4 and5illustratemodifications of the invention.

In said drawings, a designates the shaft of the reel, and b the spiders,which are car ried on saidshaft and to the ends of whose spoke portions0 are secured the blades cl.

As is usual in reels of the kind above indicated, the spokes whichcarryone of the blades of the reel are pivotally mounted and pivotallyconnected with the blades, thus serving, in effect, as link-likeconnections between this blade and the hub portion of the reel. Theobject of thus pivotally mounting one blade is to render said bladecollapsible, so that the material wound thereon may be convenientlyremoved. In the extended position of the blade in question its spokesabut against stops e, forming portions of the spi- 5o ders, and a moreor .less cumbersome contrivance has been employed to keep the bladeextended while the reel was in use.

As a substitute for the contrivance referred to I secure to the insideof the blade, as by screws, rivets, or other suitable means f, the endof a plate-spring g,which projects through the opening '5 of one of thepivoted spokes and is formed with. a tooth or projection 7, having itsrear face 70 inclined and adapted to take against a pinl, traversing therecess 11 of the spoke or other suitable portion of said spoke. I preferto place the latch which is thus formed adjacent one end of the reel, soas to engage the spoke, and tohave its free end long enough so that itcan be conveniently reached by the operators hand, not withstanding thatthe reel has been wound fullof material. By having the rear face of theprojection j inclined when the blade is moved to its extended positionthe latch will snap easilyinto engagement with the pin Z.

Centrifugal force may tend to disengage the latch from the spoke. So inorder to obviate any possibility of accident I provide a removable pinm, which may be inserted through registering openings n in the otherpivoted spoke, and a block 0, secured on the blade, or, as shown in Fig.4, a pin 0 may be inserted in the spoke, which the latch engages, oversaid latch, or, again, the projection on the latch may be placed on theside thereof adjacent the-blade, as at q in Fig. 5, with the pin Zinterposed between the latch and the blade. 7

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a reel for reelingmachines, the combination of the spiders, ablade, the spokes of said spiders which carry the blade serving aslink-like connections between the spiders and the blade, and aspring-latch adapted to secure said blade and one of .said spokes intheir extended positions and carried by one and engageable with theother of them, substantially as described.

2. In a reel for reeling-machines, the c0mbination of the spiders, ablade, the spokes In testimony that i claim the foregoing I of saidspiders which carry the blade servhave hereunto set my hand this 23d dayof ing as link-like connections between the spi- May, 1902.

ders and the blade, and a spring-latch car- JAMES SHAW. 5 ried by saidblade and engageable with one Vitnesses:

of said spokes in the extended position of JOHN WV. STEWARD,

the blade, substantially as described. JAMES B. NEWTON.

